How to Make a Successful Association: Updated

I find the credibility of this thread lacking because of the thread author.

If you have an ambitious story with long recaps and/or beautiful graphics and end it prematurely, it is still called a Thierry (sorry man, but your batting average is still like .04)

What exactly is your batting average?

If you have an ambitious story with long recaps and/or beautiful graphics and end it prematurely, it is still called a Thierry (sorry man, but your batting average is still like .04)

What exactly is your batting average?

Depends what constitute hitting a single.

Agent420, Shut up. Fair point though. I think I might retire from the section for good.

Agent420, Shut up. Fair point though. I think I might retire from the section for good.

If everyone retires because of their 'batting average', the only people who'd still be here would be the n00bs. I'm sure everyone has failed a few stories!

Agent420, Shut up. Fair point though. I think I might retire from the section for good.

If everyone retires because of their 'batting average', the only people who'd still be here would be the n00bs. I'm sure everyone has failed a few stories!

Not really, my NBA batting average is 0.667 (wins - Bobcats, Blazers, Bucks, T-wolves; fails - Knicks, Warriors), but my overall one is probably 0.500 (will include two fails, one for College Hoops 2k7 & one for College Hoops 2k8 - but that was more the crappy subforum, no point preaching to myself). The benchmark for baseball hitting average is 0.300 I think, so anything better is worthwhile. That means that you stay around, I stay around, hova stays around, Axel. stays around, Martti stays around, badreligion stays around, Andrew stays around & most other people piss off

If everyone retires because of their 'batting average', the only people who'd still be here would be the n00bs. I'm sure everyone has failed a few stories!

I resemble that remark!! I don't even write up a story if i dont think i'll stick with it. Going to do my best (although time wise it may be on and off while school kicks my butt) to bat a 1.000. Easy to do with only 2 stories though

I don't see my Cats one as a quit, it was 2k's fault. So apart from that, I have a 2/5 en route for .400. That's okay I guess.

Does a Video Games Story fail count towards your batting average? I've discontinued my FIFA 10 story, in order to dedicate all of my free time to my Rockets association. Including my association, and other story, I've hit 2/3. Not bad.

Agent420, Shut up. Fair point though. I think I might retire from the section for good.

If everyone retires because of their 'batting average', the only people who'd still be here would be the n00bs. I'm sure everyone has failed a few stories!

Not really, my NBA batting average is 0.667 (wins - Bobcats, Blazers, Bucks, T-wolves; fails - Knicks, Warriors), but my overall one is probably 0.500 (will include two fails, one for College Hoops 2k7 & one for College Hoops 2k8 - but that was more the crappy subforum, no point preaching to myself). The benchmark for baseball hitting average is 0.300 I think, so anything better is worthwhile. That means that you stay around, I stay around, hova stays around, Axel. stays around, Martti stays around, badreligion stays around, Andrew stays around & most other people piss off

I think mines is around the 0.300 mark. I'm pretty sure I started a heck of a lot back in the Live Days and even in the post-2010 era, I've had 2 wins - ALIB II and ALIB III and like 3 fails - Rockets in Live, Lakers in 2K and another shitty one in 2K. I had 2 successful ones before 2010 but then I must have had 4-5 failed ones. 4 wins, 7-8 fails isn't that bad

So mine is 1 of 60? .016%

Leave the past behind Thierry and concentrate on your current one.
It's our job to remind you of your past, not yours.

Agent420, Shut up. Fair point though. I think I might retire from the section for good.

The benchmark for baseball hitting average is 0.300 I think, so anything better is worthwhile. That means that you stay around, I stay around, hova stays around, Axel. stays around, Martti stays around, badreligion stays around, Andrew stays around & most other people piss off

I think Phil89 should be on that list as opposed to me. I had a couple of fails when I was a noob, a Miami (C)Heat association and a 2k10 My Player... so I'm really more of a one hit wonder at the moment

lol batting averages, I guess mine is....4/5 for .800? (not counting my newest one and not counting on the two that ended after one season due to crashes)

counting those 2 it would be 2/5 for .400 though, huge dropoff

That means that you stay around, I stay around, hova stays around, Axel. stays around, Martti stays around, badreligion stays around, Andrew stays around & most other people piss off

You forgot about me!!


Oh and Houndy, you should also add the Dynasty and Association HOF link in that front post under "Associations for newcomers to read"

Reading this over again, I still think they're excellent guidelines, but really, imo, there are three key components to a successful association:

Commitment - Probably the most important one. The most successful story writers (Sit, badreligionau, X, and others) commit to their story. That's why their stories last 30+ pages.

Commitment doesn't necessarily mean posting an update every day, and it doesn't mean to fully commit to your story and ignore your personal life. It also doesn't mean to go on extended leaves of absences (we're talking 2-3 months). Basically, just keep it going, if you encounter a problem in real life, declare hiatus, and come back once you're ready. There are tons of people here who start a story, and for no explicable reason, start another story the next week just when things were going fine in their first one. It's pretty annoying when that happens.

Consistency - Be consistent with your layouts and game recaps. That doesn't mean to use the same layout throughout the whole thread/story. If you need to make minor adjustments along the way, do it. But don't go from one layout, to a whole completely different layout. If you do that, you should probably only do it once.

Enthusiasm - It's mentioned in the guidelines, but yeah, if you get bored of writing a story, declare hiatus, and come back when you get the enthusiasm for basketball back. Making associations/dynasties isn't for everyone, make sure you keep that in mind.

To keep up my enthusiasm, I usually have something to motivate myself to keep going. My motivation for my first story was the Hall of Fame, and I got there. That's my motivation for my current one, but also to just have fun along the way, and not have my 2K11 game collect dust like my Live 10 game is.

Cookies (optional)- Just something to reward yourself after you get to a certain point that you wanted to get to in your association.

Others may not agree with this, but this is just my two cents.

I agree with the cookies.oh yeah, the rest of it is good too.